[Etherboot-developers] Some idea about etherboot

[Christopher Li <ch...@gn...>]

Hi Ken,

While I am playing with the etherboot, I am thinking about 2 things:

1) how about add a gdb remote debug stub?

If we really want debug stub, there are two things need to take care.
That will need to enable hardware interrupt for serial port (Which
etherboot do not provide right now.) Assume we can have hardware
interrupt, the handler must in the protect mode. BTW etherboot
jump back and forth between real mode and protect mode. So I guess
we can check the serial port every time we return to protect mode.

The nice things if we have the remote debug stub, we can download the
program from serial port. Right now I have to reboot and switch
floopys.

Just an idea.

2) how about the configure script like linux kernel?
etherboot itself is pretty much like a tiny kernel. Then make the
configure option will be easier.

Chris